Friday, May 10, 2013

To mark the 21st anniversary of the BA in Photography at the University
of Brighton, a book will be published with work from some of the school's successful
alumni.

The University recently held an online auction to raise funds for the book, now in an effort to reach the funding target Mark Power is very generously offering five stunning limited edition images from his 1992 The Shipping Forecast series.

Mark says this about the series and the offer: I began 'The Shipping Forecast' in 1992, also 21 years ago. That
time was important to me on two levels: the start of a teaching job I'm
still enthusiastically doing, and the beginning of the project that has
probably defined my career.

Recently I've been re-editing
'Forecast' because, with the benefit of hindsight, there are pictures
I'd put into the book now that I didn't include in the original. I've
chosen five of these and made an edition of ten of each, with the
forecast for that place and date printed underneath. On the back of each
print I've handwritten a little 'story' which explains something about
when, where and occasionally how the picture was made.

Each is a
beautiful, handmade object sold on a strictly first-come, first-served
basis. The price has been kept so low in the hope that we can quickly
raise the extra £5,000 we need to make the book.

Proceeds from sales of the book will be kept to one side to fund a prize for next years Brighton students. Please support us to make the book happen. Thank you.

And wait for it, the prints are offered for just £100 plus postage. Each is a beautiful, handmade object sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.

You can go to Mark Power's site HERE to see the prints in greater detail and there is a PayPal link for easy purchase.

I've just looked at the site again.... and a number have already been sold. Don't wait!

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz